"Bart Bailey" wrote in message
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In posted on Sat, 8 Dec 2007
14:57:45 +0800, Burr wrote: Begin

I just remember the "wardens" coming down the
street when they had "Test Air Raids" to be sure the lights were off or
that the shades covered the windows.

We had those 'blackout' drills during the 50s cold war era and I was an
older kid in Jackson MS. Had to put blankets over the windows or sit
around in the dark telling ghost stories like at summer camp. Almost as
much fun as riding our bicycles in the fog behind the mosquito trucks.

RE BLACKOUTS WWII
In early 1942 German submarines opened an offensive, code named Operation
Drumbeat, against the virtually undefended Allied shipping lanes along the
east coast.
Before the carnage was over, nearly 400 ships had been sunk, and thousands
of lives lost. Dozens of ships were torpedoed just off Florida's Atlantic
coast, and others in the Gulf of Mexico. German submarine skippers used the
light of coastal cities to silhouette their targets. Oil, debris, and dead
bodies were mixed with the driftwood, seashells, and tourists along
Florida's Atlantic Coast during that bloody first half of 1942.

Cities wer told to go on blackout status. Many ignored the warning until
bodies washed up on the Florida shores.

http://www.floridamemory.com/OnlineC...II/history.cfm

Lamont